Pruzhany
residents demand to transfer to another place the alcohol shop
“Sklad”, belonging to the Brest Distillery Plant, which has been
opened recently opposite secondary school No. 4. The people consider
such placement of the shop as harmful for children and
teenagers.

According to them, there are no places in the city
where people could drink good coffee, but it's not a problem to buy
aclohol. Near each school there is a shop where alcohol can be
bought. At present, there is also a special alcohol shop near
secondary school No. 4. People think it is necessary not only to
relocate the new store, but also liquidate the old ones to prevent
children from seeing the bad example of the adults who abuse alcohol.

The deputy head of the Pruzhany District Executive Committee
Viachaslau Zubko believes that according to the law each shop can
sell vodka if it keeps to the established rules, and the issue of
alcoholization lies much deeper. According to him, one shouldn't
begin with the shops, the more that “Sklad” is equipped with
video surveillance and children have nothing to do there. Mr. Zubko
says he wishes that there were few shops with vodka, but, pitifully
enough, now Belarusians cannot live like Sweds.

The former
head of school No. 4 Ivan Zdanovich is sure that the alcohol shop
should be removed from the school, as the example of adults is
contagious. The same opinion is shared by priests, believers and
hundreds of the residents who signed the petition in which they ask
the local authorities to relocate the shop further away from the
school to make the first step in the anti-alcoholic
campaign.

According to Pruzhany residents, as long as the
country's economy depends on the "drunken money" it is very
difficult to struggle for a sober way of life.